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  1. Fast Times and Mean Girls

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    Fast Times and Mean Girls

    What the great teen movies tell us about American adolescence By Hillary Kelly From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠July 2025 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news.

    17 min
  2. Feudalism Is Our Future

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    Feudalism Is Our Future

    What the next Dark Ages could look like By Cullen Murphy From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠July 2025 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news.

    20 min
  3. The Clones Are Here

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    The Clones Are Here

    “Really and truly, a horse can be alive forever. Forever and ever.” By Bianca Bosker From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠July 2025 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news.

    34 min
  4. How to Look at Paul Gauguin

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    How to Look at Paul Gauguin

    He was misunderstood, then adored, then vilified. Who was he really? By Susan Tallman From the ⁠⁠⁠⁠July 2025 issue⁠⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news.

    20 min
  5. The Talented Mr. Vance

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    The Talented Mr. Vance

    J. D. Vance could have brought the country’s conflicting strands together. Instead, he took a divisive path to the peak of power. By George Packer From the ⁠⁠⁠July 2025 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news.

    43 min
  6. The Secret to Happiness

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    The Secret to Happiness

    Alison Bechdel has spent a lifetime worrying. In a new graphic novel, she finds something like solace. By Hanna Rosin From the ⁠⁠⁠June 2025 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news.

    15 min
  7. Lost at Sea

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    Lost at Sea

    On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific. By Alec Frydman From the ⁠⁠⁠June 2025 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news.

    24 min
  8. When Buckley Met Baldwin

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    When Buckley Met Baldwin

    In 1965, the two intellectual giants squared off in a debate at Cambridge. It didn’t go quite as Buckley hoped. By Sam Tanenhaus From the ⁠⁠⁠June 2025 issue⁠⁠⁠. Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You’ll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news.

    31 min
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